Obamateurism of the Day

posted at 8:05 am on August 30, 2011 by Ed Morrissey

Barack Obama has headed home from his vacation. That means, according to his promise, Obama will have a jobs-bill proposal to publish and send to Congress. The nation can’t wait to see it.

Except that, er … we’ve been waiting a year. In August 2010, Obama told NBC’s Brian Williams that he’d have a plan just as soon as he got back to work:

BRIAN WILLIAMS: Let’s talk about another topic that’s part of the firmament here and everywhere. And that’s the economy. The New York Times said this weekend, “President Obama has another new plan on the economy. Now would be a good time to find out about it.” Do you have anything new on the economy? And while you’ve been away, we had a horrible GDP number last month.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, look, we — we anticipated that the recovery was slowing. The economy is still growing, but it’s not growing as fast as it needs to. I’ve got things right now in — before Congress that we should move immediately. And I’ve said so before I went on vacation, and I’ll keep on saying when I — now that I’m back. We should be passing legislation that helps small businesses get credit, that eliminates capitalgains taxes so that they have more incentive to invest right now.

There are a whole host of measures we could take, no single element of which is a magic bullet but cumulatively can start continuing to build momentum for the recovery. But look, the — this was the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and the worst recession since the Great Depression. And so, what we know is that we are going to have to slowly, steadily build confidence. Push more investment out there. Target areas like clean energy that we know are going to be be growth areas in the future.

Look at how we’re doing our infrastructure, so that we can maximize the amount of jobs that are created. So, there — there are a range of steps that I hope we can get bipartisan support for. But right now, we’re still — we’re in the season, political season, which means that for the next two months there’s going to be be constantly a contest in the minds of Members of Congress. And my Republican friends in Congress, between doing what the country needs and what they think may be advantageous in the — in terms of short term politics.

Wow — a summer with a “horrible” GDP number, reminders of the Great Depression, and more vacuous talk about “infrastructure.” This really is deja vu!

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Ø sez: “I have new ideas! No, really, hear me out, don’t be so negative and obstructionist! Listen, if you can’t understand and accept my decisions, It will still be your fault for … not listening to me!”

Ø sez: “I have new ideas! No, really, hear me out, don’t be so negative and obstructionist! Listen, if you can’t understand and accept my decisions, It will still be your fault for … not listening to me!”

But right now, we’re still — we’re in the season, political season, which means that for the next two months there’s going to be be constantly a contest in the minds of Members of Congress. And my Republican friends in Congress, between doing what the country needs and what they think may be advantageous in the — in terms of short term politics.

Wow…On the bright side, it looks like the excuses will run out in two months. (oh, who am I kidding?)

And, at least now we’ve identified two reasons that one might have to disagree with the President: one could either be a racist or a Republican being contrarian for the sake of short term politics. There is apparently absolutely no other good reason anyone could could reach a different conclusion about the way things work than he.

Actually if Brian Williams had interviewed Uncle Omar in MA he would have likely received clearer direction for the American people. In fact I believe uncle Omar would do better in the White House than his long lost and inept nephew.

But right now, we’re still — we’re in the season, political season, which means that for the next two months there’s going to be be constantly a contest in the minds of Members of Congress. And my Republican friends in Congress, between doing what the country needs and what they think may be advantageous in the — in terms of short term politics.

Seriously, can anyone understand what this man is trying to say? The first excuse for a sentence seems to imply that Congress will be thinking about the elections over everything else, but the second “sentence” isn’t; it’s merely a clause looking for a home. (Typical for the man, read Early Obama Letter Confirms Inability to Write. He obviously writes exactly the way he speaks, i.e. badly.) Even if you grant it sentence status, what does he think the republicans are doing? Though he states that they are doing what the country needs, which is an amazing admission considering who is making it.

He must have fired his speech writer, as part of a cost cutting measure to be sure, because he’s had nothing new to say since the election. I read a really good article yesterday at AT which exposes his definite lack of writing skills. Surely, all of the media can’t be such hard core leftists that they can’t see how inept this man really is at expressing his thoughts.

Well it’s the first thing he thinks about, when he wakes up. It’s the last thing he thinks about, before going to sleep. Isn’t that enough, people? I mean….c’mon. The poor guy is on overload just thinking about it.

Look, I know that Obama’s performance on this issue is as bad as a bucket of cold wolfe piss, but gee wizz folks, his intentions were good.. I think….. Ok, OKAY!! He doesn’t give a damn about the economy or jobs, unless its jobs for union cronies who feed him laundered stimulus money for his re-election campaign. But, gosh darn it, what’s he gonna do? I mean, he’s gotta have that to do cause he doesn’t want to go hang with Mooshelle. Poor guy….. LOL!